Majority Leader reportedly seen sweeping Osun State Assembly, as workers go on strike

AUGUST 12, 2015

Once upon a time not-too-long ago, Justice Folahanmi Oloyede wrote a petition calling for the probe of Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, over his alleged financial recklessness with the state’s purse.

Ever since, she has come under fire from several quarters, with some saying her allegations carry no weight, while others say she has no legal ground to write the petition.

As she faces the line of fire, her lawyer, a certain Lanre Ogunlefe, had a telephone conversation with Channels Television on a morning programme ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Tuesday, where in the course of defending his client, made some revelations.

Ogunlefe said the inability of Gov Aregbesola to pay civil servants’ salaries in Osun State has gotten so bad, that he recently witnessed the Majority Leader sweeping the floor of the State House of Assembly, simply because the workers had downed their tools in protest.

He said:

“The House of Assembly consists of APC and PDP members. Only APC members constituted the ad hoc committee which investigated the matter. And in a House that has both the APC and the PDP, you would expect that some PDP members would be part of the committee.

“The lawmakers did not even want to grant us a hearing. They said the governor had responded and I said can we have a copy of the response but they refused give it to us.

“They said we should provide evidence. The evidence is there. Projects are abandoned. Hospitals are closed. A very young boy of about seven was brought to the hospital and his arm was about to be amputated because he could not get anti-tetanus injection.

“And when we got to the House, the Majority Leader was sweeping the floor of the House and trying to make the House conducive for the meeting. There were no workers there and I said how can a Majority Leader be sweeping the floor? Then a policeman said, ‘You know that workers are on strike.”